Staying Positive After a Relapse
Staying positive after a relapse, especially when you’ve been sober for a length of time, can be difficult, but letting negative thinking consume you can make you feel worse and make it harder to not relapse again. On the flip side, you might be especially motivated to “do recovery right this time,” and bite off […]
5 Things to Avoid After Drug Rehab
After completing drug treatment, it’s important that you are working a program and maintaining certain habits and routines to stay sober and keep recovery strong. It is just as important, however, that you avoid certain things that do not support— or may be harmful to— your recovery. Remember that recovery is a continuous process and […]
The Importance of Healthy Addiction Replacement Habits
A big contributor to addiction and addictive behaviors is poor coping mechanisms. When someone is in active addiction, self-medicating with substances is often the only coping mechanism that someone knows. Much of recovery involves replacing harmful habits with healthy ones and learning to rely on these positive substitutions. It is critical to take care in choosing […]
Setting Up Barriers for Relapse Prevention
At all stages of recovery from a substance use disorder, putting barriers between yourself and relapse is essential to relapse prevention. There are many factors outside of your control that you will come into contact with on a daily basis, so a solid, individualized relapse prevention plan is essential to your success in recovery. Setting […]
